ABAP Users memory

ABAP Users memory

Monitors SAP ABAP user-session memory usage by instance, client, user,
and session type. It detects sustained or immediate memory overuse,
raises alarms with configurable severity, and can generate per-user
memory metrics for operations and reporting.

What Can Be Monitored

This monitor evaluates ABAP user sessions and supports filtering by:
- Instance
- Client
- Session Type
- Users

Monitoring capabilities:
- Threshold-based memory alarms (MB)
- Duration-based alarms for sustained overuse
- Optional notification to the affected user
- Per-user memory metric generation

Monitored Data

The monitor uses session data such as:

Instance
Client
User
Session type
Memory used (MB)
Application/transaction context
Additional session info (when available)

Configuration hint

Use * in Instance, Client, Session Type, and Users to match all values.
Set Max. used memory (MB) to 0 to disable threshold alarming for that row.
Duration (Min) applies only after threshold breach is detected.
Alarm, Metric, and Report control output behavior per surveillance row.
Notify user sends alarm notifications only if user email is available.

Configuration

Monitoring parameters

Parameter name	Required	Default value	Description
None	No	-	This monitor is configured only through the Surveillance Table.

Surveillance Table

Parameter name	Required	Default value	Description
Active	Yes	true	Enables or disables the row evaluation.
Instance	Yes	*	ABAP instance filter (supports wildcard matching).
Client	Yes	*	SAP client filter (supports wildcard matching).
Session Type	Yes	*	Session type filter (supports wildcard matching).
Users	Yes	*	User filter (supports wildcard matching).
Max. used memory (MB)	Yes	0	Memory threshold in MB. Alarm thresholding is active only when not 0.
Duration (Min)	Yes	0	Minimum continuous breach duration in minutes before alarming. 0 means immediate alarm.
Notify user	Yes	false	Adds matched user email as alarm receiver when available.
Severity	Yes	MAJOR	Alarm severity used when alarm conditions are met.
Auto clear	Yes	true	Defines whether generated alarms are clearable.
Alarm tag	No	(empty)	Optional alarm text prefix/tag for classification.
Alarm	No	true	Enables alarm generation for this row.
Metric	No	false	Enables metric generation for this row.
Report	No	false	Enables report-mode output for this row.

Alarm conditions

An alarm is generated when all conditions are true:

Active is true
Alarm is true
Session matches Instance, Client, Session Type, and Users filters
Max. used memory (MB) is not 0 and memory usage breaches threshold
Duration (Min) is 0, or breach lasts longer than Duration (Min)

Alarm message includes used memory, user, instance, client, session type, and optional application/info context.

Generated metrics

Metric name	unit	description
ABAP instance memory used per user	MB	Memory used for each matched user session, tagged with instance, client, user, session type, and transaction/application.

Example

Active	Instance	Client	Session Type	Users	Max. used memory (MB)	Duration (Min)	Notify user	Severity	Auto clear	Alarm tag	Alarm	Metric	Report
true	*	*	*	*	500	0	false	4	true	MEM	true	false	false
true	DVEBMGS00	100	GUI	JDOE	300	10	true	3	true	HOTUSR	true	true	false
true	*	*	*	*	0	0	false	4	true	METRICONLY	false	true	false

Resulting alarms:

Example row 1: immediate alarm when any matched session reaches 500 MB or more.
Example row 2: alarm only when JDOE stays above 300 MB for more than 10 minutes.
Example row 2: if user email exists, alarm notification is also sent to that user.
Example row 3: no alarm is generated because Alarm is false and threshold is disabled.

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